Experimental: American Literature and the Aesthetics of Knowledge

by Natalia Aki Cecire

Book Overview

A compelling revision of the history of experimental writing from Pound and Stein to Language poetry, disclosing its uses and its limits.

In this bold new study of twentieth-century American writing and poetics, Natalia Cecire argues that experimental writing should be understood as a historical phenomenon before it is understood as a set of formal phenomena. This seems counterintuitive because, at its most basic level, experimental...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 142143377X
• ISBN13: 9781421433776
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"